When Men Become Gods
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When Men Become Gods
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Author : Stephen Singular
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2009-07-07
When Men Become Gods written by Stephen Singular and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-07 with Religion categories.
In When Men Become Gods, New York Times bestselling author Stephen Singular casts a light on a dark corner of religious extremism. He reveals a group of fundamentalists operating in the present-day United States, where teenage girls are kept in virtual bondage in the name of upholding the "sacred principle" of polygamy. As the leader and self-proclaimed prophet of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints, a sect of Mormonism based in isolated southern Utah, Warren Jeffs held sway over thousands of followers for nearly a decade. His rule was utterly tyrannical. In addition to coercing young girls into polygamous marriages with older men, Jeffs reputedly took scores of wives, many of whom were his father's widows. Television, radio, and newspapers were shunned, creating a hidden community where polygamy was prized above all else. But in 2007, after a two-year manhunt that landed him on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List, Jeffs's reign was forcefully ended. He was convicted of rape as an accomplice for his role in arranging a marriage between a fourteen-year-old girl and her nineteen-year-old first cousin. In When Men Become Gods, Edgar Award nominee Stephen Singular traces Jeffs's rise to power and the concerted effort that led to his downfall. It was a movement championed by law enforcement, private investigators, the Feds, and perhaps most vocal of all, a group of former polygamous wives seeking to liberate young women from the arranged marriages they'd once endured. The book offers new revelations into a nearly impenetrable enclave---a place of nineteenth-century attire, inbreeding, and eerie seclusion---providing readers with a rare glimpse into a tradition that's almost a century old, but that has only now been exposed.
When Men Are Gods
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Author : G. Cope Schellhorn
language : en
Publisher: Inner Light - Global communications
Release Date : 1991
When Men Are Gods written by G. Cope Schellhorn and has been published by Inner Light - Global communications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Gods categories.
Accidental Gods
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Author : Anna Della Subin
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Release Date : 2021-12-07
Accidental Gods written by Anna Della Subin and has been published by Metropolitan Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-07 with History categories.
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY ESQUIRE, THE IRISH TIMES AND THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT A provocative history of men who were worshipped as gods that illuminates the connection between power and religion and the role of divinity in a secular age Ever since 1492, when Christopher Columbus made landfall in the New World and was hailed as a heavenly being, the accidental god has haunted the modern age. From Haile Selassie, acclaimed as the Living God in Jamaica, to Britain’s Prince Philip, who became the unlikely center of a new religion on a South Pacific island, men made divine—always men—have appeared on every continent. And because these deifications always emerge at moments of turbulence—civil wars, imperial conquest, revolutions—they have much to teach us. In a revelatory history spanning five centuries, a cast of surprising deities helps to shed light on the thorny questions of how our modern concept of “religion” was invented; why religion and politics are perpetually entangled in our supposedly secular age; and how the power to call someone divine has been used and abused by both oppressors and the oppressed. From nationalist uprisings in India to Nigerien spirit possession cults, Anna Della Subin explores how deification has been a means of defiance for colonized peoples. Conversely, we see how Columbus, Cortés, and other white explorers amplified stories of their godhood to justify their dominion over native peoples, setting into motion the currents of racism and exclusion that have plagued the New World ever since they touched its shores. At once deeply learned and delightfully antic, Accidental Gods offers an unusual keyhole through which to observe the creation of our modern world. It is that rare thing: a lyrical, entertaining work of ideas, one that marks the debut of a remarkable literary career.
Can Men Become Gods
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Author : Spiros Zodhiates
language : en
Publisher: AMG Publishers
Release Date : 2000-09
Can Men Become Gods written by Spiros Zodhiates and has been published by AMG Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-09 with Religion categories.
Men Like Gods
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Author : Herbert George Wells
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1923
Men Like Gods written by Herbert George Wells and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1923 with categories.
Little Gods
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Author : Meng Jin
language : en
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Release Date : 2021-02-25
Little Gods written by Meng Jin and has been published by Pushkin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-25 with Fiction categories.
An epic, heart-breaking novel opening on the night of the Tiananmen Square massacre, about the legacy of migration, with a tangled family mystery at its heart On the night of the Tiananmen Square massacre, a woman gives birth alone in a Beijing hospital. Years later, her daughter Liya travels from America to China with her mother's ashes, hoping to unravel the legacy of silences and contradictions that she inherited from that night. As Liya seeks to untangle the mystery of her family, we travel through Shanghai and Beijing, and deep into the past, uncovering an unexpected love triangle whose repurcussions are felt in the present moment. Ambitious yet intimate, Little Gods is a gripping story of migrations both literal and emotional, and of the tragic impact of history on personal lives. Meng Jin's s narrative prose has appeared in the Pushcart Prize Anthology, Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, the Bare Life Review, Vogue, and Best American Short Stories 2020. A Kundiman Fellow, she has an MFA from Hunter College, and received the David TK Wong Fellowship at the University of East Anglia. Jin was born in Shanghai and has lived in the UK and the US.
Men Women And Gods And Other Lectures
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Author : Helen Gardener
language : en
Publisher: Litres
Release Date : 2021-12-02
Men Women And Gods And Other Lectures written by Helen Gardener and has been published by Litres this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-02 with Fiction categories.
Becoming Gods
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Author : Richard Abanes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Becoming Gods written by Richard Abanes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Religion categories.
Bringing clarity out of what is sometimes deliberately-caused confusion, Abanes authoritatively demonstrates why evangelicals cannot and should not accept the ever-changing claims of Mormonism. Ultimately, he concludes, there is a vast difference between a religious system that can trim its doctrinal sails to the wind of current opinion--and a faith that is anchored in the historical, biblical Jesus Christ, the unchanging Word of God.
Gods Without Men
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Author : Hari Kunzru
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2012-03-06
Gods Without Men written by Hari Kunzru and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-06 with Fiction categories.
In the desert, you see, there is everything and nothing . . . It is God without men. —Honoré de Balzac, Une passion dans le désert, 1830 Jaz and Lisa Matharu are plunged into a surreal public hell after their son, Raj, vanishes during a family vacation in the California desert. However, the Mojave is a place of strange power, and before Raj reappears inexplicably unharmed—but not unchanged—the fate of this young family will intersect with that of many others, echoing the stories of all those who have traveled before them. Driven by the energy and cunning of Coyote, the mythic, shape-shifting trickster, Gods Without Men is full of big ideas, but centered on flesh-and-blood characters who converge at an odd, remote town in the shadow of a rock formation called the Pinnacles. Viscerally gripping and intellectually engaging, it is, above all, a heartfelt exploration of the search for pattern and meaning in a chaotic universe. This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.
A Select Library Of The Nicene And Post Nicene Fathers Of The Christian Church
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Author : Philip Schaff
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1887
A Select Library Of The Nicene And Post Nicene Fathers Of The Christian Church written by Philip Schaff and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1887 with Fathers of the church categories.